Western Desert Verbal Arts Project Collection
From 2012 - 2017 Ngaatjatjarra linguist Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis worked with Inge Kral and Jennifer Green to document the endangered verbal arts of the Australian Western Desert.
The Western Desert dialects spoken in the …
Maduwongga elder, Joyce Nudding, takes her grandchildren on a return to country trip to look at sandalwood trees. Linguists, Gizem Milonas and Troy Reynolds, recorded words, sentences and stories along the way. A short, fun film about sandalwood trees.
Audrey Nungala Rankine from Mungkarta talks about her experiences growing up around Ali Curung and the Devil's Marbles including the story of her painting.
In the desert, water is mostly found below ground. Any surface water quickly dries up in the heat, but underground water remains available in waterholes and rockholes. Aboriginal people of the inland differentiate between permanent water, called living water, and seasonal water …
A short video in celebration of NAIDOC week, filmed in Indulkana community. Three elders speak about where they were born, where they’ve been and what’s important to them.
Full interviews are being played on 5NPY radio.
This delightful short film is about a day trip to Wave Rock by two Goldfields boys. The language is the Tjupan language of the Goldfields region of Western Australia.
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